The majority of these postings are from the internet. Some of them are unedited while some of them are.I just scoured the internet for material that I thought would be of benefit to my students who are sitting the English B CSEC exam.
I apologise for not citing the sites as references.
Some of the material comes from Clifford Narinesingh co - author of A Comprehensive English
Course , Books 1-3 and CXC English A.

Sunday, 12 February 2012

A Stone's Throw

A Stone's Throw by Elma Mitchell

The poem A Stone's Throw is about some self-righteous men who caught a prostitute now in those days prostitution was a sin (still is) and the punishment was stoning. these men caught her a roughed her up but still justifying their intentions {she's felt men's hands, greedy over her body, but ours were virtuous, of course} if a man touches a woman's body with out her permission how can he be virtuous. the prostitute aka Mary Magdalene was dead scared because she knew the fate she was about to have and obviously she was just assaulted. but a 'preacher, god merchant,' aka Jesus squatted down to her level and writing in the dust and looked at her. then he turned to them and said he who is free of sin shall cast the first stone and that's when their eyes were on them selves and they saw that they weren't as sinless as they had thought and so no stne was thrown at her. but it wasn't the end to their prosecutions!

The poem A Stone's Throw presents concisely the notion of how we are not to judge others because everyone has sinned.The individuals were stoning the prostitute and found out from the guru that they should not do so unless they are free from sin.This poem contains a biblical allusion to the story of Mary Magdalene but it also presents how society view sinners.It is very easy to see the fault of others and in our self righteous state we tend not to see our faullts.The themes of women in society and the role of religion is explored by this poet.